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" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "
Paul Mooney
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" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
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" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "
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" White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. "
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" You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. "
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" When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them. "
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" What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. "
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" My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more. "
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" Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. "
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" Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. "
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" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "
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" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "
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" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "
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" Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. "
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" America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. "
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" I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me. "
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" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "
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" Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. "
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" Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. "
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